The Nigeria Police Trust Fund (NPTF) has announced plans to intervene in the upgrading of the Nigeria Police Training School, Ilorin, Kwara State, North Central Nigeria to a world-class standard.
The Fund equally promised to patronize the Kwara Garment Factory, Ilorin for the production of police uniforms.
The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, had during the opening of a two-day management retreat organised by the Fund for stakeholders in Ilorin, requested the NPTF to patronize the state’s garment factory for the production of police uniforms, the upgrading of Police Training School, Ilorin, among others.
In response to the governor’s request, the Executive Secretary of the NPTF, Mohammed Sheidu, and his management team visited the Police Training School and the garment factory for an on-the-spot assessment of the facilities.
After the assessment tour, Sheidu assured the state government that the Fund would intervene in the upgrade of the facilities at the Police Training School and as well patronize the garment factory.
He said that though the Ilorin Police Training School is meant for the training of recruits, the Funds would intervene in the rehabilitation and upgrading of its facilities to a world-class standard.
“The facilities (in the police training school) need to be upgraded to a world-class standard,” Sheidu said.
At the Kwara State government-owned Garment Factory, Sheidu initiated talks with officials of the factory for possible production of uniforms for officers and men of the Nigerian Police Force.
Impressed by the facilities on ground, Sheidu urged other state governments to replicate the same in their respective states to encourage local production and end the importation of textile materials.
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